the leona group has only just taken over this system, which has been ailing for years. >> are kids gettinginitely. >> reporter: 1997 graduate keith blames the district for leaving him unprepared for the university of michigan. >> i didn't have the core concepts in place to achieve in math or to write a great paper. things i should have learned in elementary school and high school. it continuously breeds a population of people that aren't prepared for the world. >> reporter: the state of michigan has moved to be dismissed from the lawsuit, acknowledging the school district is in terrible shape. but arguing a lawsuit is not a path to literacy. poppy harlow, cnn, highland park, michigan. >>> we'll talk much more about this case with our great legal minds. they're on standby, ready to go on this one. we'll be right back. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. ♪ ♪ we're lucky, it's not every day you find a companion as loyal as a subaru. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> all right. before the break, w

the question with them is why was it the leona group? the people with the knowledge of the state's thinking say that wasn't the right choice, a rushed decision. their record isn't strong enough. and whether this is the solution for the kids or not, the aclu says it's absolutely not. we'll try to go back in a year. they told me in the interview that these kids' test scores are going to go up. so we'll go back and see are they going to go up? 37% graduation rate. >> either has dropped out or moved on as ninth graders. >> i'm glad they're suing. >> that's not the right answer. lawsuit. >> that was my question. why sue? >> you have no other options. >> live pictures from bellfonte, pennsylvania where jerry sandusky is expected to walk into the courtroom in any moment. we learned now why he released a three-minute audiotape defending himself. that's straight ahead. >>> a skydive attempt from the edge of space. it's on hold right now. they've got to make some decisions about the weather wooemplt watching that, too, in roswell, new hampshire. w

and soon we will be joined by leona morgan, according to with a group, navajo dinÉ against uranium mglcome all of you to "democracy now!" let's begin with you, jay. give us a tour of where we are right now. we are sitting in the fuller lodge. >> that is correct. to zero in nationally, here you are on this 100-city tour across the country, but the day you're not just in any town and she put it, we are in the birthplace of atomic and nuclear weapons. specifically, we're sitting in the historic fuller lodge. you invoke the name of j. r. oppenheimer, director of the manhattan project. i recall seeing another physicist who receive the nobel prize for physics, basically the man who figured out how the sun works through nuclear fusion. but approximately i would say about a dozen years ago before he died, he did a talk here in fuller lodge on the abolition of nuclear weapons, for which he was an advocate, speaking to los alamos employees. and afterwards, i remember him standing on the veranda here at fuller lodge shaking his head going, "they just don't understand." >> so what happens here no